Punnappākkam─Slab in the ruins of a temple in the village.

Year 25

Tamil

Commences with the praśasti : Tirumannivaḷara, etc. Registers a gift of 50 kuli of areca garden made tax-free as strīdhana for the goddess Nambirāṭṭiyār (i.e. Sītā) on the occasion of her consecration and marriage with Tiruvayōddhi-chakravarti (i.e. Rāma) in Jayaṅgoṇḍachōla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Veṇgal-nāḍu in Paiyūr-Iḷaṅgōṭṭam of Jayaṅgoṇḍachōla-maṇ- ḍalam, by Pāḍagattuluda Vāmanakramavittan. Incomplete.

Do. Slab above the niche in the maṇḍapa near the lake to the west of the village.

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Saka 1665, Rudhi- rōdgārī, Kārttikai 9, Pañchamī, Thurs- day= 1743 A.D., November 10.

Do.

States that the taṇṇīrppandal-maṇḍapa, pond, and garden were the benefactions of Liṅgappa Śeṭṭi, grandson of Dēvarāja Ja[ya]liṅgappan of Nallāttūr Periyapāḷaiyam.

Veḷḷiyūr.─Vālīśvara temple to the north of the road, pillar.

Chōḷa

Year 1[.]

Do.

Damaged and beginning of the praśasti Tirumannivaḷara, etc. lost. Seems to refers to a gift of 90 sheep for a lamp to the god at Tiruvālīśvaram by a Brāhmaṇa (kramavittan) whose name is lost.

Veṇgal.─Pichchāṇḍīśvara temple, door jamb, left of the entrance.

Do.

Year 11 (in words)

Do.

Commences with the words Kāndaḷūrśālaikkalamarutta. Registers a gift of 3½ kalañju of gold by Kavarāmoli alias Tirumati po …. for the merit of Śērruvēḍarpiḷḷai Antara- vēṇḍinaṅgai to the śivabrāhmaṇas of the three divisions (kūrru) at Tirumuṇḍīśvaram, towards the various offerings and other services for the god on the occasion of Tiruvādirai. The palanquin of the temple is called ādiviṭaṅkan.

Do., do., pillar lyining front of the temple

Rājarājakēsarivarman Rājarājadēva

Year 27

Do.

Mutilated at the end. Seems to register a gift of land by pur- chase from the villagers of Kāvanūr in Veṇgal-nāḍu of Paiyūr- Iḷaṅgōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōlamaṇḍalam by a woman for the merit of her husband Muḷḷūr Aliśukāḍan, the headman of Mūvalūr and a merchant of Veṇgal alias Satyāśrayakulakā- lapuram, a city in the same nāḍu, towards worship and offerings to god Tirumuṇḍīśvaram-uḍaiyār.

Do., do., another pillar in the same place

Do.

Registers a gift of 180 Sheep for two perpetual lamps to Tiru- muṇḍīśvaradēva at Veṇgal in Veṇgal-nāḍu in Paiyūr Iḷaṅg- ōṭṭam by Mayilai Kaṇḍarāchchan.

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